Description |
1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms; Abbreviations; 1. Making the Past in a Global Present: Chennai's New Heritage; Part 1. The Formal City and Its Pasts; 2. Governing the Past: Chennai's Histories; 3. Memory, Mourning, and Politics; 4. Modernity Remembered: Temples, Publicity, and Heritage; Part 2. Restructured Memories; 5. Consuming the Past: Tourism's Cultural Economies; 6. Recollecting the Rural in Suburban Chennai; 7. The Village as Vernacular Cosmopolis; 8. Conclusion: "How Many Museums Can One Have?"; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a center for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and back-office services. State and local governments promote tourism and a heritage-conscious cityscape to make Chennai a recognizable "brand" among investment and travel destinations. Using a range of textual, visual, architectural, and ethnogra |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Collective memory -- India -- Chennai
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Cultural property -- India -- Chennai
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Collective memory.
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Cultural property.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Collective memory
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Cultural policy
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Cultural property
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Chennai (India) -- Cultural policy
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India -- Chennai
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780253002655 |
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0253002656 |
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9780253352231 |
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0253352231 |
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1282103350 |
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9781282103351 |
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9786612103353 |
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6612103353 |
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